aD THE SITKAN KINGLET. 
holes in the shell which he counts a sufficient exit. In color they were pure 
white, flushed with the peculiar ruddy of fresh eggs having semi-transparent 
shells, with a pale broad band of brownish dust about the larger ends (the 
smaller one in one case ). 
When I had descended,—singing and whistling right merrily snatches of 
songs once popular, “Sweet Marie,” and the like, for my spirits were uncom- 
mon high,—the mother-bird returned to the nesting tree and haunted the site 
of the ruined home persistently. First she peered down from the branch 
above; then she dropped down to the branch below, and craned her head, 
sorely perplexed. She lighted upon the white stump of the severed limb and 
examined it confusedly, then she fluttered in midair precisely where the nest 
ought to have been, and dropped to the limb below again in despair. This 
mystified quest she repeated over and over again until it wrung the hearts of 
the beholders. Well, well; we are inconsistent creatures, we humans. And 
somehow the comfortable philosophy of the bird-nester fails at these critical 
points. 
No. 105. 
SITKAN KINGELEYF. 
A. O. U. No. 749a. Regulus calendula grinnelli Palmer. 
Synonyms.—ALASKAN Kineiet. SirKkA RuBy-cROWNED KINGLET. GRIN- 
NELL’S KINGLET. 
Description —Like preceding but of much darker coloration—a “saturated” 
form; also wing somewhat shorter, bill larger, etc. Av. measurements of male*: 
wing 2.23 (56.6) ; tail 1.69 (42.9) ; bill .34 (8.7); tarsus .72 (18.1). 
Recognition Marks.—Of strikingly darker coloration than FR. calendula— 
supposed to be the exclusive form in winter. 
Nesting.—As preceding. Does not breed in Washington. 
General Range.—FPacific Coast district breeding from British Columbia to 
head of Lynn Canal and Yakutat Bay, Alaska; south in winter (at least) to 
middle California. 
Range in Washington.—Early spring and late fall migrant, common winter 
resident on Puget Sound. 
Authorities.—? Regulus calendula, Licht. Cooper and Suckley, Rep. Pac. 
R. R. Surv. XII. pt. IT. 1860, p. 174 (Winter resident on Puget Sound). Bowles, 
Auk, Vol. XXIII. Apr. 1g06, p. 148. 
Specimens.—B. E. P(A). 
SO far as our somewhat scanty observation goes, this would appear to 
be the prevailing form in the earlier spring migrations, and the only one found 
in winter upon Puget Sound. Thus, while the lighter-colored birds, which 
a. Ridgway: Six specimens. 
